Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo...

ARCHBISHOP WILL MEDIATE.

June 17, 1986

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — ARCHBISHOP WILL MEDIATE. Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas has agreed to act as mediator between the government and leftist guerrillas in an effort to end El Salvador's civil war. He said Sunday that he would contact leaders of both sides to draw up a list of minimum points of agreement and try to arrange another meeting. Rivera y Damas and the deputy archbishop, Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, had acted as go-betweens in arranging two meetings in 1984. Both ended in deadlock.